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Fiat flux : the writings of Wilson R. Bachelor, nineteenth-century country doctor and philosopher
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Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from...
Wilson R. Bachelor was a Tennessee native who moved with his family to Franklin County, Arkansas, in 1870. A country doctor and natural philosopher, Bachelor was impelled to chronicle his life from 1870 to 1902, documenting the family's move to Arkansas, their settling a farm in Franklin County, and Bachelor's medical practice. Bachelor was an avid reader with wide-ranging interests in literature, science, nature, politics, and religion, and he became a self-professed freethinker in the 1870s. He was driven by a concept he called "fiat flux," an awareness of the "rapid flight of time" that motivated him to treat the people around him and the world itself as precious and fleeting.
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- Creator
- edited and introduced by William D. Lindsey ; with a foreword by Thomas A. Bruce and an afterword by Jonathan Wolfe
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xx, 306 pages) : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 1299775780, 9781299775787, 9781557286369, 1557286361, 9781610755252, 1610755251
- OCLC
- ocn859155837
- Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index.
- Introduction : Wilson R. Bachelor, whys and wherefores / by WIlliam D. Lindsey -- Diary of Wilson R. Bachelor (1870-1902) -- Occasional pieces from the scrapbook of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890s) -- Letters of Wilson R. Bachelor (1890s) -- Afterword : medicine in the Arkansas River Valley, 1865-1890 / by Jonathan Wolfe -- Appendix I : Goodspeed autobiography of Wilson R. Bachelor (1889) -- Appendix II : masonic eulogy of Wilson R. Bachelor (1903) -- Appendix III : report of Wilson R. and Sarah Bachelor's golden wedding anniversary (1897) -- Appendix IV : letter of Wilson R. Bachelor to Zion's ensign (4 February 1893) -- Appendix V : genealogical charts
Subjects
- Bachelor, Wilson R., 1827-1903 -- Authorship.
- Bachelor, Wilson R., 1827-1903 -- Diaries.
- Bachelor, Wilson R., 1827-1903.
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- Physicians -- Arkansas -- Franklin County -- Biography.
- Freethinkers -- Arkansas -- Franklin County -- Biography.
- Philosophers -- Arkansas -- Franklin County -- Biography.
- Physicians -- Tennessee -- Diaries.
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- Physicians -- Tennessee -- Collected Correspondence.
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- Physicians -- Tennessee -- Biography.
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- Physicians -- Arkansas -- Diaries.
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- Physicians -- Arkansas -- Collected Correspondence.
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- Physicians -- Arkansas -- Biography.
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